One for the horticulturists amongst us, summer feels like it's finally here..

First of the 25% gradients, had to walk up the last part of this bad boy..

Pit stop at the top and i captured this cheeky Shire horse attempting to arfinch the last of my water.

Of course i let it have it, well it was a hot day.
Like bottle feeding a baby...

Views are nice up here..

Thought the mad mare lying down was dead, turns out she was catching some rays.
Never seen a horse lying down in a field like this before.

Bumped into an old TD member on the way back, "He said to say hi. Also if anyone wants their drive tarmacking, then it's £50 and three large Chang".
He's doing well for himself that static looks palatial.

Just back from an hour myself after a hard day at the orifice. These sunny evenings out a-wheel are good for the soul.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Fooking hard graft this hill riding, two hours up and 15 minutes down.

Good effort. What was your mileage?

I just checked via google maps and i climbed just over a 1000 feet.
The journey was about a 20 mile round trip.
Will have to get some data logging technology on the bike, what do you recommend?

There are quite a few good GPS based bike computers on the market now, with Garmin probably being the most popular. Go into the Bike Radar website, I seem to recall a recent article on their top picks in different price ranges (just found the link: http://www.bikeradar.com/road/gear/a...cycling-43224/ ).

Open a Strava account (free) and sync your rides into that. It will keep a history of your rides as well as dafa comparison with other riders if your interested.

I'm using a Garmin Edge 520, which is a great all rounder, and also connects via bluetooth to my phone for call and message.alerts. I also have it's predecessoe, the 510 which is also very good but I prefer the 520's push button controls over the 510's touch screen.

Yep, Garmin all the way. You can get a Garmin 200 for around 50 pounds. But the 500s are down to about 80 now. Mine's been going strong for over 7000 miles. Here it is outside a little café it in Hereford.